Coretta Scott King Book Awards honors African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults that demonstrate sensitivity to “the African American experience via literature and illustration.”

Coretta Scott King / John Steptoe Award for New Talent –

Shadra Strickland; illustrator of Bird

Illustrator Honor Award –

We are the Ship by Kadir Nelson

Before John was a Jazz Giant by Sean Qualls

The Moon Over Star by Jerry Pinkney

Illustrator Award-

Blacker the Berry Illustrated by Floyd Cooper

Author Honor Book –

Keeping the Knight Watch by Smith

Blacker the Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas

Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford

Winner-

We are the Ship by Kadir Nelson

John Newbery Medal honors the author of the year’s most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

Honors –

The Underneath by Appelt

The Surrender Tree by Engle

Savvy by Law

After Tupac & D Foster by Woodsen

Winner-

The Graveyard Book by Gaiman!

Laura Ingalls Wilder Award honors an author or illustrator whose books have made a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.

Ashley Bryan

Margaret A. Edwards Award honors an author’s lifetime contribution in writing for young adults as well as a specific body of his or her work.

Laurie Halse Anderson (!!!)

May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award recognizes an author, critic, librarian, historian, or teacher of children’s literature, who then presents a paper, considered to be a significant contribution to the field of children’s literature, at a winning host site.

Mildred L. Batchelder Award is presented to an American publisher for the most outstanding book originally published in a country other than the United States in a language other than English and subsequently translated into English for publication in the United States.

Honor Books –

Garmon’s Summer by Hole

Tiger Moon by Michaelis

Winner –

Moribito by Uehashi

Odyssey Award is presented to the producer of the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults available in English in the United States.

Honors –

Listening Library – Curse of the Blue Tattoo

Listening Library – Elijah of Buxton by Curtis

I’m Dirty McMullan – Weston Woods

Martina the Beautiful Cockroach – Peachtree

Nation Pratchett – Harper Collins

Winner –

Recorded Books – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part – Time Indian

Pura Belpré Award recognizes Latino/Latina writers and illustrators whose work best portrays, affirms and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.